Employment – ERISA – Workers’ Comp Offset – Plan Language

An ERISA plan allowed a plan beneficiary’s workers’ comp benefits to be offset against his plan disability payments, even though the workers’ comp benefits were for an illness unrelated to the claimant’s disability, the 4th Circuit says.Carden v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. (USCA) (VLW 009-2-055) (12 pp.)